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In 2009, the government of India launched a new identification  program that has gone on to become the largest biometric database in the world . The program, known as Aadhaar, has collected the names, addresses, phone numbers—and perhaps more significantly, fingerprints, photographs, and iris scans—of more than 1 billion people. In the process,  Aadhaar has taken on a role in virtually all parts of day-to-day life in India , from schools to hospitals to banks, and has opened up pathways to a kind of large-scale data collection that has never existed before. The Indian government views Aadhaar as a key solution for a myriad number of societal challenges, but critics see it as a step toward a surveillance state. Now, the Aadhaar experiment faces a significant threat from the Indian Supreme Court. Privacy had emerged as a contentious issue while the apex court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Centre’s move to make Aadhaar mandatory for availing governme...

The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data scandal This is a famous quote given by Clive Humby, founder of Dunnhumby, a marketing analytics firm. When he was working on some data to provide insights to the firm he was working for, he realized that data can be as powerful a source as oil for business in coming future. And he was absolutely right. We can see nowadays how much Data Industry has grown. This is what we have witnessed in Facebook case. Facebook has been all over the news due to Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign’s data firm, was involved in a data collection scheme. This allowed Cambridge Analytica access to the private information of over 50 million Facebook users. We discuss what you need to know about this recent scandal, and what it means for Facebook users WHAT IS CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA? Cambridge Analytica is a data firm that offers companies and political parties services to “change audience behavior”.  The purpose of CA is to come ...

What are your thoughts on the ball tampering scandal regarding the Australian cricket team? The Australian cricket team has always been engulfed in controversies. Many a time I gave them the benefit of doubt that their aggression on the field ended up with them crossing the line a few times. I admired their hunger for winning. I attributed the controversies which happened in the heat of the moment to their unsatiated desire to maintain their supremacy in the cricketing. How far have they come in the true spirit of the ‘gentleman’s game’! Surely, the Australian team has never failed to entertain the cricket fraternity on the field. Earlier it was the cricketing plus sledging skills and now it’s the cheating skills or art I must say which has made the headlines for them. Ball tampering is an illegal act of distorting the surface/seam of the ball to affect its motion. So, this is what really happened: During the 3rd Test out of the 4 Test match series between Australia and Sou...